OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
REFERENCES
S. R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003, p. 446.
LINKS
T. M. Apostol, On the Lerch zeta function, Pacific J. Math. 1 (1951), 161-167. [In Eq. (3.7), p. 166, the index in the summation for the Apostol-Bernoulli numbers should start at s = 0, not at s = 1. - Petros Hadjicostas, Aug 09 2019]
Jonathan Sondow and Petros Hadjicostas, The generalized-Euler-constant function gamma(z) and a generalization of Somos's quadratic recurrence constant, arXiv:math/0610499 [math.CA], 2006.
Jonathan Sondow and Petros Hadjicostas, The generalized-Euler-constant function gamma(z) and a generalization of Somos's quadratic recurrence constant, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 332 (2007), 292-314.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Somos's Quadratic Recurrence Constant.
Aimin Xu, Asymptotic expansion related to the Generalized Somos Recurrence constant, International Journal of Number Theory 15(10) (2019), 2043-2055. [The author gives recurrences and other formulas for the coefficients of the asymptotic expansion using the Apostol-Bernoulli numbers (see the reference above) and the Bell polynomials. - Petros Hadjicostas, Aug 09 2019]
EXAMPLE
MAPLE
f:=proc(t, x) exp(sum(ln(1+m*x)/t^m, m=1..infinity)); end; for j from 0 to 29 do numer(coeff(series(f(3, x), x=0, 30), x, j)); od;
PROG
(PARI) {a(n) = local(A); if(n < 0, 0, A = 1 + O(x) ; for( k = 1, n, A = truncate(A) + x * O(x^k); A += x^k * polcoeff( 3/4 * (subst(1/A, x, x^2/(1-x^2))^2/(1-x^2) - 1/subst(A, x, x^2)^(2/3)), 2*k ) ); numerator( polcoeff( A, n ) ) ) } /* Michael Somos, Aug 23 2007 */
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
frac,sign
AUTHOR
Petros Hadjicostas and Jonathan Sondow, Oct 15 2006
STATUS
approved